TY - JOUR T1 - Young maternal age was associated with increased risk of postneonatal death in full term, healthy infants JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 57 LP - 57 DO - 10.1136/ebn.6.2.57 VL - 6 IS - 2 A2 - , Y1 - 2003/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/6/2/57.abstract N2 - Phipps MG, Blume JD, DeMonner SM. Young maternal age associated with increased risk of postneonatal death.Obstet Gynecol2002 ;100:481–6OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science QUESTION: Are full term, healthy infants born to young mothers at increased risk of postneonatal death compared with infants born to adult (older) mothers?Cohort study with ≤365 days of follow up.United States.1 830 350 mothers who were 12–29 years of age and delivered healthy (≥37 wks gestation, birth weight ≥2500 g), singleton infants in the US in 1996 and 1997, who survived the first 28 days after birth. Data sets were racially stratified as non-Hispanic white (1 246 863), non-Hispanic black (303 699), and Mexican-American (279 788). Multiple births, higher order births, and infants with congenital defects were excluded.Maternal age ≤15 years was the main … ER -